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The Dead, Debora Greger

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 90-91

Temple, Alexis Levitan, Salgado Maranhāo

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 108

The One Who Howls, Alexis Levitan, Salgado Maranhāo

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 109-110

Emma Darwin At Fifteen, Laura Lee Beasley

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 51

The Censor Works At Home In The Evening, Corey Marks

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 115-117

When He Came Back, Michael Chitwood

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 56

Monday Morning, Ashley Warner

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 147

Orbit, Alexis Levitan, Salgado Maranhāo

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 111

The Miracle, William Logan

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 114

Gabriel, Chad Davidson

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 187-191

The Forest, Corey Marks

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 118-119

Pastoral, Rose Mclarney

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 120

Familiars, Hastings Hensel

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 195-199

Growing Up, Worlds Apart (August -- December 2014), Daniel A. Harris

Bryant Literary Review

"What I didn't understand," you replied

as we talked of our first contacts with blacks,

Margaret Wise Brown Papers, 1938-1960., Beth S. Harris

Finding Aids: Guides to the Collections

Materials related to the career of children's author Margaret Wise Brown. The collection includes literary manuscripts, correspondence, legal papers, biographical information, periodical publications, sound recordings, ephemera, and clippings

Devising Performance & Queer Futurity, Brendan F. Leonard

Honors Theses

This project argues that devising performance is an inherently queer and utopian form. In response to recent political movements, such as Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter, which seek to stage dissatisfaction with the systems of late capitalism, I turn to devising performance as a site. Informed by the queer and performance theories of Jose Esteban Munoz, Lee Edelman, and Jill Dolan, I argue that devised theater allows us to process disillusionment, rehearse collectivity, and stage futurity. In conversation with Munoz, I define futurity as an imaginative site that considers what will follow what some scholars suggest will be …

Within And Without: Psychoanalysis, Trauma Theory, And The Healing Narrative, Carrie Crisman Oorlog

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In this collection, I explore the process of writing to heal from trauma. In exploring the rhetorical landscape of trauma writing, I offer a new framework for understanding how those who experience a traumatic event may use the process of writing creatively to engage in a process of healing. I argue that through the creation of art, individuals may take ownership of their experiences and memories, thus exerting the agency over the experience that was lost as the result of trauma. I also demonstrate and reflect upon my own journey in creating the healing narrative as a process of healing …

Message Status, David Shrauger

Bryant Literary Review

Sam awoke with a smile, just like he did every day.

He brushed his teeth with a smile,

Omaha Beach, Jon Malchiodi

Bryant Literary Review

My only friend Bill sits beside me.

He smells like booze and is burning,

Fly With Me, Meagan Pessolano

Bryant Literary Review

I drink to our love tonight

Cheers to all the lovers across the seas

Trap, Susan Johnson

Bryant Literary Review

A loud snap, a mouse half-trapped

one leg caught, one free, still leaping

Library Of The Lost, Howard R. Wolf

Bryant Literary Review

He had spent years paying attention to his elders, and now he was one.

You Could Die Laughing (For Sarah Purnell And Especially For Anne), Don Fisher

Bryant Literary Review

I told a co-worker about a mutual friend dying.

She thumbed away one tear.

Nothing, Nathan Rivas

Bryant Literary Review

It's all I have to offer.

Not a penny for the man

shaking his cup,

John, Paul, George And Me, Brian Daldorph

Bryant Literary Review

I was the Beatles' first drummer,

played the first gig at The Cavern

The Acid God & The Anti-Dad, Saint James Harris Wood

Bryant Literary Review

With his dirty blond grown-out Beatles haircut, secondhand Hawaiian silk shirts and second-rate flip-flops

Oh My Brother, Katie Koumarianos

Bryant Literary Review

The rifle stands wedged into the ground

between standard issue combat boots

Bravo, Lisa Starr

Bryant Literary Review

And when, at last,

September rolls around again,

there is a wild flurry among the leaves

Into The Storm, Tatianna Williams

Bryant Literary Review

Olivia sits in the chair near the silent radio and reaches for her brush with a trembling hand.

The Charleston Church Massacre, David Dragone

Bryant Literary Review

The reporter with perfect hair and perfect teeth

asked Mrs. Tragedy how she felt

now that her innocent son had been gunned down in church.